There are 3,477 square kilometers in Sardinia that are at risk of floods and floods, 14.4 per cent of the territory and with the involvement of 447 thousand inhabitants and almost 1,500 cultural assets.
These are the data relating to 2020 collected by Ispra and revised by the Confartigianato Sardegna Research Office.
It should be added that only 3.4 percent of the island is at "high risk"; the 4 at "medium risk", the 7 at "low risk.
In detail, explains Confartigianato, out of 24,100 square kilometers, 827 square kilometers (3.4%) suffer from a "high hydraulic hazard with high risk of landslides", involving as many as 80 thousand people and 346 cultural assets. The "medium risk" band, on the other hand, covers 974 square kilometers, involves almost 125 thousand inhabitants and 433 cultural assets. The lowest band, the "light impact" one, impacts on 1,676 square kilometers of territory, on which 271 inhabitants with 674 cultural assets gravitate.
At the provincial level, the one that risks the most is South Sardinia, with 227 square km "highly dangerous", followed by Oristano with 209, Northern Sardinia with 163, Nuoro-Ogliastra with 130 and Cagliari with only 96.
"We hope that other funds from the PNRR will also arrive in Sardinia, which could be made available by the Ministry of the Environment for the restoration, protection, safety of areas exposed to risk of failure and for existing works - comments Maria Amelia Lai, president of Confartigianato Imprese Sardegna - These funds would represent an almost unique opportunity that must absolutely be seized and exploited. We would not want bureaucracy to do more damage than floods ".
(Unioneonline / ss)
